BluWave-ai solar system powers Bryan Adams concert

BIZ  Energy  •  Clean Energy  •  Atlantic Canada

BluWave-ai, an Ottawa-based renewable energy optimization firm, says it enabled North America’s first completely time-shifted, solar-powered concert during a Bryan Adams performance in Summerside, P.E.I.

Springbank brings real estate expertise to clean energy

BIZ  Energy  •  Clean Energy  •  Toronto / GTA

Springbank Energy says its energy-as-a-service model offers technological versatility and an intimate understanding of the Canadian real estate industry to springboard the sector’s net-zero transition.

Canadian expert co-authors Verra’s biochar methodology

BIZ  Carbon  •  Investment  •  Ottawa, International

The publication of Verra’s biochar methodology, which creates a verified carbon standard (VCS) and quantifies greenhouse gas emissions reductions from the production and use of biochar, is a significant step for the sector according to one of its authors.

Duxion, Dymond to create a GHG-free cargo jet fleet

BIZ  Transportation  •  Technology  •  International, Atlantic Canada

St. John’s-based Duxion Motors Inc. says its patented zero-GHG-emission eJet motors will soon take to the skies, in a fleet of unmanned cargo jets to be operated by Dymond Aerospace Inc.

The developer trying to stop a greenbelt highway

Real Estate  •  Corporate Knights

Canada’s largest farmland owner sees opportunity

Real Estate  •  Globe and Mail

Insurers sound alarm on Canada’s ‘vague’ climate plan

Real Estate  •  Globe and Mail

Just weeks before the federal government intends to release its long-awaited climate adaption strategy, industries and organizations that have engaged with Ottawa in developing the plan are warning that it’s on track to be too little and too late.

Canada climate adaption coalition urges hard targets

Real Estate  •  Globe and Mail

A broad coalition on climate adaptation and disaster resilience says air conditioning should become a human right on par with winter heating – one of a series of hard targets it says Canada needs to meet.

Time to deliver on climate pledges: Pembina Institute

Energy  •  The Energy Mix

Chris Severson-Baker, the newly-appointed executive director of the Pembina Institute, discusses how he believes Canada can transform its climate plans and promises into reality and investments.

Airlines team up on Canadian carbon capture tech

Carbon  •  Good News Network

More than a dozen airliners, including Air Canada, are joining hands to fund a direct air carbon capture project by B.C.-based Carbon Engineering to offset a half-million metric tons of carbon dioxide.

Pride Group purchases another 250 electric trucks

Transportation  •  Electric Autonomy

Pride Group Enterprises, a Mississauga-based logistics company, is expanding its fleet of heavy-duty electric trucks by 200 Freightliner Class 8 eCascadia and 50 Freightliner Class 6-7 eM2 box trucks in a recent order.

Youths’ climate case set for Ontario court hearing

Carbon  •  Global News

Ontario has set greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets dangerously low and is therefore discriminating against young people, who will bear a disproportionate burden of climate change, seven youth activists argue in a lawsuit against the government.

The clarion call of ‘transition finance’

Finance  •  Green Biz

Google’s three-part sustainability plan

Energy  •  Fortune

With its 2030 net-zero goal, Google has one of the most aggressive sustainability plans among Big Tech companies. It has applied a vast, three-step plan to make it an outlier among its peers.

Africa looks to grow its carbon market

Carbon  •  Associated Press

Dozens of carbon offset schemes have sprouted across Africa, with the continent’s governments now looking to capitalize on this exploding global industry. “Suddenly, trees are worth more alive than dead,” said Vahid Fotuhi, founder of the Blue Forest initiative.

Clorox aims to trims greenhouse gases 32%

Carbon  •  Environment + Energy Leader

The Clorox Company is a multinational maker and marketer of consumer products — the likes of Pine-Sol, Liquid-Plumr, Glad, Brita, and Hidden Valley. It has aimed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 32 per cent from a 2011 baseline.

Two key climate tipping points are in Canada

Carbon  •  CBC

Current rates of global warming have already moved the world perilously close to several tipping points that could send key global weather systems into irreversible collapse, a significant study from Europe has found. Two of the five are in Canada.

Will Britain’s new PM derail climate action?

Energy  •  Corporate Knights

Five long-term impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act

Energy  •  Green Biz

Consequential to the Inflation Reduction Act will be the longer-term impacts of how this historic legislation can reshape consumer behavior, economics and political alignments. Five big bet outcomes are especially noteworthy.

For more sustainable businesses, invest in female leaders

Real Estate  •  Globe and Mail

For Canadians interested in sustainability and the principles of responsible investing, it’s time to get more women in leadership roles, but also to back their ventures.